Associations Between Maternal Nutritional Characteristics and the Anthropometric 
 Indices of Their Full-term and Pre-term Newborns

Godhia, Meena; Nigudkar, Madhuri; Desai, Reema

doi:10.3923/pjn.2012.343.349

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“…Various other studies also have showed similar relation with maternal haemoglobin levels. 6,8,16,17 In a study conducted by Biswas in west Bengal, no significant association was observed between sexes of new born and birth weight which is similar to observation in present study. 5 In the present study 16 subjects reported exposure to second hand smoking at work and home environment.…”

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confidence: 88%

Maternal biosocial factors influencing new born birth weight at a municipal corporation maternity home in Bangalore city

Konapur

Srikanth

2017

Int J Community Med Public Health

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Background: Birth weight of new born is known to be influenced by several maternal biosocial factors. The study was undertaken to find association of various maternal biosocial factors influencing birth weight of the new born.Methods: The study subjects were 150 postnatal women and their new born delivered in an Urban Municipal Corporation Maternity Home. Study subjects were chosen by purposive sampling. Socio demographic and pregnancy related information was collected by interview method and from antenatal records.Results: The proportion of low birth weight noted was 8.6%. Statistically significant association was noted between new born birth weight and maternal health status during pregnancy which includes weight gain during pregnancy, intake of iron and folic tablets and antenatal check-up. Maternal haemoglobin levels had a positive correlation with new born birth weight.Conclusions: Maternal health is vital for new born wellbeing. Birth weight of new born has shown steady improvement over a period of time and this is as a result of availability of better maternal health care services in urban corporation maternity home.

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confidence: 88%

Maternal biosocial factors influencing new born birth weight at a municipal corporation maternity home in Bangalore city

Konapur

Srikanth

2017

Int J Community Med Public Health

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“…The association between higher energy and fat intake during pregnancy with birth weight is not completely understood (Rao et al, ; Lagiou et al, ; Godhia, Nigudkar, & Desai, ), and further questions arise. Some studies (Kulkarni et al, ; Horan et al, ; Ye et al, ) suggest that dietary fat intake and maternal lipid profile levels could be linked to the newborn birth weight.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…According to Horan et al (), the maternal diet and the dietary saturated fat percentage were associated with neonatal adiposity. Moreover, the retrospective descriptive study design employed by Godhia et al () showed a significant correlation between maternal energy, carbohydrate intake and birth weight and also between fat intake and head circumference among 100 full‐term and preterm newborns from Mumbai, India.…”

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High cholesterol dietary intake during pregnancy is associated with large for gestational age in a sample of low‐income women of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Castro

Farias

Lepsch

et al. 2016

Maternal & Child Nutrition

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The association between the quality of maternal dietary fat intake during pregnancy and the infant's birthweight (BW) remains controversial. Our goal was to investigate the association between maternal dietary fat intake during pregnancy and the rate of large for gestational age (LGA) newborns. This study employed a cross-sectional analysis of 297 pairs of mothers/children attending a public maternity at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. BW for gestational age according to the Intergrowth 21st was defined as follows: adequate for gestational age (AGA ≤ 90th percentile) and LGA (>90th percentile). The statistical analysis was a Poisson regression with robust estimations of the standard errors. Maternal dietary fat intake variables comprised lipids (% total energy); saturated (mg/1000 kcal), monounsaturated (mg/1000 kcal) and polyunsaturated (mg/1000 kcal) fats; and cholesterol (mg/1000 kcal), all of which were obtained with a Food Frequency Questionnaire. The mean BW was 3338 g (SD = 446.9), and the rate of LGA newborns was 13.1%. The mean maternal total energy intake was 2880 kcal (SD = 1074), cholesterol was 154.3 mg/1000 kcal (SD = 68.1) and monounsaturated fat was 6.9 mg/1000 kcal (SD = 2). Mothers of LGA newborns reported higher cholesterol dietary intake (195.8 vs. 148 mg/1000 kcal; P < 0.001), pre-pregnancy body mass index (25.1 vs. 23.5 kg/m ; P = 0.026) when compared with mothers of AGA newborns. Women with cholesterol intake within the fourth quartile were 2.48 (95% confidence interval: 1.31-4.66) times more likely to have an LGA infant compared with those in the 1-3 quartiles. Dietary intake of cholesterol during pregnancy influences LGA even after adjusting for other confounders.

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“…Weight gain: A progressive and optimum weight gain in pregnancy is not only an indication of the normalcy of a pregnancy but it may be a fortune teller on other parameters in pregnancy (Godhia et al, 2012;Deval et al, 2011;WHO, 2001;Lawoyin, 1997). Whether the weight gain is appropriate or not may also predict pregnancy outcomes, such as birth weight, risk of pre-term birth and some disease condition later during adult life of the foetus (McDonald et al, 2010;Lawoyin, 1997;Calkins and Devaskar, 2011).…”

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Human anthropometric values and societal factors - A review

Bamaiyi¹,

Ladan²

2019

Int. J. Curr. Res. Biosci. Plant Biol.

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Anthropometric measurements have important applications in every aspect and stage of the human life. It may be used to tell-tale the health or otherwise during pregnancy of the mother and the unborn baby. During childhood, it can be used to measure growth, health and nutritional status. In adult life, they may depict level of nourishment and may connote some disease states. The records are required in drugs prescription and in designing and choosing the right hospital equipment to use for a patient. Anthropometric measurements are also required in the design of houses, human wears and most industrial designs of products for human uses are based on average anthropometric records of the particular society for which they are meant. A particular anthropometric index however, may vary widely between apparently normal individuals of the same sex, age and race when varying from one societal setting to the other and sometimes within same society based on some factors. These differences often make it difficult to interpret anthropometric measurements as normal or abnormal. What are the determinants of these differences? How should these variations be managed by health workers and other users? The present review intends to present some of these differences in various human categories and suggest in a compact, yet comprehensive form, how to deal with these differences in order to optimize the use of the records.

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Associations Between Maternal Nutritional Characteristics and the Anthropometric Indices of Their Full-term and Pre-term Newborns

Cited by 6 publications

References 16 publications

Maternal biosocial factors influencing new born birth weight at a municipal corporation maternity home in Bangalore city

Maternal biosocial factors influencing new born birth weight at a municipal corporation maternity home in Bangalore city

High cholesterol dietary intake during pregnancy is associated with large for gestational age in a sample of low‐income women of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Human anthropometric values and societal factors - A review

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